Main people in medicine
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4 humours
Hippocrates
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Balancing the humours
Hippocrates
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Father of medicine
Hippocrates
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Believed in healthy living
Hippocrates
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First to take notes from other doctor's observations (Cause and effect)
Hippocrates
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Built upon Hippocrates' work
Galen
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'Designed' the human body
Galen
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Liked by the church
Galen
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Wrote 60+ books
Galen
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First to carry out dissections
Galen
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Graverobbed
Vesalius
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Corrected hundreds of Galen's mistakes on anatomy
Vesalius
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Went against the church in order to publish his books on human anatomy
Vesalius
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Proved that the heart pumped blood around the body (previously believing in the liver)
William Harvey
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Theorised diseases were caused by outside sources
Paraselsus
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Believed in chemical treatment
Paraselsus
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Believed that seeds in the air caused disease
Giolamo Fracostoro
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Created a better understanding of the digestive system
Jan Baptiste Van Helmont
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Saw urine as an inaccurate diagnostic
Jan Baptiste Van Helmont
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First person to describe the basic unit of human beings as a 'cell'
Robert Hooke
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Drew detailed diagrams of magnified objects, such as fleas
Robert Hooke
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Published 'observations medicae', which rejected the four humours
Thomas Sydenham
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Allowed the microscopic study of animalcules (bacteria)
Anthony Van Leewenhoek
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Made first recorded image of bacteria/animalcules
Anthony Van Leewenhoek
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Discovered structure of DNA
Francis Crick and James Watson
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Created vaccine for smallpox
Edward Jenner
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Did not entirely understand why his invention worked
Edward Jenner
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Found that gently warming liquids killed bacteria causing rot
Louis Pasteur
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Created germ theory
Louis Pasteur
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Disproved spontaneous generation theory
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for chicken cholera
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for rabies
Louis Pasteur
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Figured out why vaccines worked
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for Typhoid
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for TB
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for diptheria
Louis Pasteur
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Found vaccination for Tetinus
Louis Pasteur
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Pasteur's rival
Robert Koch
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Figured out how to stain bacterium
Robert Koch
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Found the specific bacterium that caused anthrax
Robert Koch
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Developed agar jelly for use in petri dishes
Robert Koch
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Found specific bacterium that causes cholera
Robert Koch
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Developed method of showing which bacteria caused a disease
Robert Koch
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Developed chloroform inhaler
John Snow
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Figured out that cholera was water-borne
John Snow
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Figured out that drinking cholera infected water is how the disease spread
John Snow
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Theorised disease was spread through dust particles
John Tyndall
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Started using carbolic acid in surgery
Joseph Lister
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Started created aseptic and antiseptic surgery conditions
Joseph Lister
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Discovered blood groups
Karl Landsteiner
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Discovered chloroform
James Simpson
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Lobbied the government to organise hospitals in Crimean war
Florence Nightingale
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Opened a nursing school
Florence Nightingale
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Made important notes on nursing
Florence Nightingale
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Discovered X-Rays
William Ronlgen
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Discovered the first magic bullet
Paul ehrlich
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Discovered sodium citrate prevented blood clotting, allowing for storage of blood
Albert Hustin
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Invented the mobile X-Ray
Marie Curie
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Discovered penicillin
Fleming
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Made penicillin into a treatment
Chain and Florey
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Hippocrates
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Hippocrates
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